OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND RADIOPROTECTION

LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT

To increase the awareness of health risks associated with the use of ionizing radiations

COURSE CONTENTS SUMMARY

Basics of Occupational Medicine and Principles of Prevention at the workplace

RECOMMENDED READINGS

Notes

ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA

Oral examination

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures

COURSE CONTENTS

Part 1 EPIDEMIOLOGY
definition of health and determinants of health/disease
evolution of the definitions of health
The continuum health-disease
The importance of measuring health thought health-indicators
The Burden of Disease
Definition of epidemiology and fields of study of the epidemiology Fields of study of the demography, census, the population pyramid, Fundamental parameters of populations: general mortality, infant mortality, life expectancy at birth
Measures in epidemiology: prevalence and incidence rate, relation between incidence and prevalence
Epidemiological measures of risk association
characteristics of the association causal
the causal factors and risk factors
the relative risk (RR) -how does it work
odds ratio (OR) how does it work
Classification of epidemiological studies:
observational studies and experimental studies
case-control studies (odds ratio)
cohort studies (relative risk)
clinical trials ( what it means to randomize)
Definition of screening, characteristics of a screening campaign
sensitivity, specificity, predictive values
examples of screening (eg, neonatal, cancer)